You can use an insight provider as a business network monitoring module. After you configure business-related resources, you can use the insight provider to analyze business traffic status in real time, detect business network errors in a timely manner, assess network quality, and analyze event impacts.
Terms
Term | Description |
insight provider | A user-defined network monitoring component. An insight provider is used to monitor the network health status of specified objects and provides capabilities including network quality assessment, network observability, and automatic alerting. You can specify multiple resources in a region as the monitored objects of an insight provider and manage insight providers based on the types of monitored business resources. |
monitored resource type | The types of resources that can be monitored by an insight provider. You can specify virtual private clouds (VPCs) as the monitored objects of an insight provider. Then, the insight provider monitors and analyzes network status in the specified VPCs in real time based on the collected Internet-facing traffic metrics of the VPCs. |
Internet quality event | Insight providers generate exception alerts on the Internet quality of links between clients and Internet service provider (ISP) networks by analyzing Internet-facing traffic metrics in real time. Insight providers generate Internet performance degradation events or Internet availability degradation events if they detect that Internet latency increases or network connectivity declines. |
Internet quality score | Insight providers evaluate Internet quality based on Internet performance and availability. Insight providers analyze Internet traffic metrics in real time and evaluate the metrics based on the model for predicting traffic health status powered by the artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) algorithm. If the metrics are beyond the health range evaluated by the model, the insight providers estimate the proportion of abnormal traffic on the Internet and deduct the proportion. The proportion is the Internet performance score and the deduction result is the Internet availability score. |
proportion of affected traffic in client networks | When an insight provider detects an exception on the Internet quality of a link between a client and an ISP network, the insight provider estimates the proportion of affected traffic on the link and analyzes the impact on the link based on the proportion. |
proportion of affected traffic for an insight provider | When an insight provider detects an exception on the Internet quality of a link between a client and an ISP network, the insight provider estimates the proportion of affected traffic for the insight provider and analyzes the impact on the insight provider based on the proportion. |
health status on the last day | The Health Status of Last Day column displays the time range during which events related to Internet quality degradation occur on the last day. In the insight provider list, you can quickly learn about the Internet running status of each component in the Health Status of Last Day column. |
round-trip time (RTT) | RTT refers to the period of time it takes for a packet to be sent from a client and returned from a recipient. The weights of clients vary based on their sent traffic. |
autonomous system number (ASN) | Each autonomous system is assigned an ASN. Autonomous systems manage assigned CIDR blocks and decide how to forward packets from one network to another network. On the Internet, ISPs and network service providers use ASNs to establish and maintain routing relationships to achieve interconnection and data transmission between networks. ASNs are also used to identify ISPs, network service providers, and other network entities. |
Limits
Insight providers are used to identify the Internet health status based on TCP traffic. If no business-related packets are sent over TCP, the corresponding insight provider cannot observe network quality.
How it works
Check whether Internet quality exceptions occur
Insight providers analyze their inbound and outbound Internet traffic in real time and evaluate the traffic based on the model for predicting Internet traffic health status powered by the AIOps algorithm. If the business traffic is beyond the health range evaluated by the model, insight providers generate alerts to help you learn about business network exceptions in a timely manner. Network quality is evaluated in the following two aspects:
Internet performance degradation: Insight providers monitor Internet latency distribution, continuously upgrade the model for evaluating the health range of Internet latency, and check whether Internet performance is in the normal state based on the intelligent baseline prediction feature.
Internet availability degradation: Insight providers observe the distribution of repeated packets on the Internet, continuously upgrade the model for evaluating the health range of Internet availability, and check whether Internet availability is in the normal state based on the intelligent baseline prediction feature.
Calculate performance and availability scores
The performance score indicates the estimated proportion of traffic that is not affected by Internet performance degradation. For example, a performance score of 98% indicates that 2% of total traffic is affected by Internet performance degradation. The availability score indicates the estimated proportion of traffic that is not affected by Internet availability degradation. For example, an availability score of 99% indicates that 1% of total traffic is affected by Internet availability degradation.
Generate and handle Internet quality events
Insight providers automatically generate and disable Internet quality events for monitored traffic based on configured rules. Insight providers also estimate the proportion of traffic affected by the events in client networks and the proportion of traffic affected by the events for the insight providers.
Scenarios
Detect service availability
You can use an insight provider to monitor the availability of a link in a region and check whether the link is connected in a timely manner.
Identify latency issues
You can use an insight provider to monitor the network performance metrics of a link in a region, locate latency issues, and analyze the issues to reduce latency.
Benefits
Displays network performance data in the console. You do not need to use code to evaluate network performance.
Helps you understand the performance and availability of the Internet.
Saves your costs by providing free services.
Supported regions
Area | Region |
China | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Nanjing - Local Region), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), and China (Heyuan) |
Europe and Americas | Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London), US (Silicon Valley), and US (Virginia) |
Middle East | UAE (Dubai) and SAU (Riyadh - Partner Region) Important The SAU (Riyadh) region is operated by a partner. |
References
You can use insight providers to obtain real-time information about Internet quality assessment, learn about Internet quality degradation in a timely manner, and receive Internet quality events and event impact analysis. For more information, see Work with the insight provider.